Shortest AAR ever.

[Aemilius Paulus]

I know, along with LS and Alexander too :-P

Maion

Well, LS did exist, exist, you know. Just *pretends to be a snotty EB historian* "outside of the EB timeframe". Seriously, I don't see why so many people here make such a big deal of it. I mean, to me, it looks "cooler" than the standard, everyday and mundane Lorica Hamata. Perhaps it is because so many noobs come to these forums to ask about and because the Roman soldiers are always portrayed wearing it in popular media, whereas it was only in the middle days of Empire when the Romans used it.

Alexander was a pretty bad, but its depiction of the soldiers and warfare of that time in general was actually the most accurate (save for that scene where arrows slaughtered the phalanx) that I have ever seen and probably will see in my life from a Hollywood movie.

300, on the other hand was so inaccurate that the only thing that the producers got right was that at the Battle of Thermopylae Spartans and Persians were present. However, it is worth mentioning even the forces present at the battle, as depicted by the recent movie, were inaccurate. The stand of 300 Spartans was just the final part of the battle and that numerous Greek polises (plural spelling?) were present in the main battle as well. Not to mention that the Thespians stood along with the Spartans during the last stand. I found the negative to extreme portrayal of the Persians distasteful as well. The Persians actually had better reasons for starting the war, as it was the Greeks who aided the rebelling Ionian colonies in Asia Minor prior to the Greko-Persian wars.